Laura Wade has written a clever, witty play about our fast-moving attitudes towards traditional ideas of work, sex, power, and marriage, through the l...
What's so funny about that? The opening question of Jumping the Shark is basically 'can you teach people to be funny?' The set-up is a comedy writing ...
Despite all the noise and nonsense seeping out of the Arts Council about opera funding, it is great to be able to celebrate the fact that English Tour...
Jake Heggie's opera 'Dead Man Walking' is a bold contemporary choice for a student conservatory to make, but one that is fully justified on this showi...
'Akedah', which translates as 'binding' is the first full-length play by a writer who has now gone on to later and greater success. It now comes to Ha...
While we take Athenian tragedy as the foundation of so much of what has followed in the Western dramatic tradition, how often do we stop to think abou...
Il Viaggio a Reims, Rossini’s last Italian opera (writing in French thereafter), composed for 14 solo voices, premiered in 1825, for Charles X’s coron...
This stunning short piece by Tim Crouch is reflection on the nature of theatre and the shared values that bring performers and audience together. It's...
Umberto Giordano used the true story of the poet Andrea Chénier, guillotined in 1794 aged 32, three days before the end of the Terror as inspiration f...
This production first saw the light of day at Bard College in 2015 and was most recently reworked at the Young Vic last year. I had the pleasure of re...
